Castro

In this edition: a hot chicken and ramen restaurant changes concepts to a sushi restaurant and a custom sofa store and medical spa open in the Castro.

Mexico-based chain La Borra del Café has proposed to move into the long-vacant ground floor retail space 2175 Market Street (at Sanchez and 15th streets).

An April tent fire destroyed an Amos Goldbaum mural at Church and 15th Streets, but Goldbaum is restoring it now and expects to finish by the end of the week.

Another Planet Entertainment has just announced it will be hosting a town hall meeting about the upcoming changes to the historic 100-year-old Castro Theatre on Thursday, August 11 at the Castro.

"Ultimately this was a decision rooted in wanting to offer the best possible dining experience with the resources at our fingertips while maintaining as much of the original Frances character as possible," Perello says.

A new Chinese restaurant is slated to open on Castro Street in the coming weeks, occupying a long-vacant storefront.

Castro residents now have a new source for hanging plants, house plants, and moss baskets.

The Epicurean Trader was just announced as the ground floor retail tenant at the new residential condo building 2238 Market — a.k.a. the development on the former Sullivan's Funeral Home property.

The longtime owner of the plant shop and nursery, David Gray, says the shop hasn't been profitable for a while. "I'm gonna have to find a job," he says.

Seven months after bathhouse and sauna Eros closed its longtime Castro location, it will have a “Pride Weekend Sneak-Peek” at its new Turk and Taylor Streets location.

The Castro's fine-dining gem Frances (3870 17th St.) reopens Thursday night (June 23), after a months-long remodel, and after remaining mostly dark since March 2020.

A nonprofit has formed specifically to thwart plans by Another Planet Entertainment to remake the interior of the historic Castro Theatre to be more conducive to live music events — and specifically the group wants to stop a plan to remove all the seats from the theater's main level.

Two people were shot and one was killed Wednesday morning onboard a Muni train traveling between Forest Hill and Castro stations.

Plans for the return of a Pink Saturday event in the Castro have been canceled just four days before Pride Weekend.

After 13 years in the Castro, Trudy's Tattoo Parlor (2275 Market St.) quietly shuttered this month due to pandemic-related financial stresses.

San Francisco-based Live Fit Gym is set to take over the former Castro 24 Hour Fitness location at 2145 Market Street (at Church).

The Academy Award-winning 2008 Harvey Milk biopic 'Milk,' the production of which included on-location shooting in the Castro and the restoration of the Castro Theatre's neon sign, will be screened again at the theater in June as part of a benefit.

For the third year in a row, the Pink Triangle atop Twin Peaks will once again be lit up like a giant gay beacon throughout Pride Month. But this time, it will be more vibrant in the daytime as well.

In June, a new art and events pop-up, Queer Arts Featured (a.k.a Queer A.F.), will be opening in the former HRC Store (also Harvey Milk's one-time camera store) at 575 Castro Street.

Plans for the anniversary include a week of screenings featuring iconic films from each decade of the Castro Theatre's history, from June 3 -12, as well as a day of films shot in SF on June 22, the actual anniversary date.

Café Flore was an LGBTQ+ haven in the Castro neighborhood for over 45 years. Now, the space will finally come alive again later this year under a new owner, who was a former customer.

After nine years at its current location on 17th Street, Castro gift shop Local Take (3979B 17th. St.) is preparing to move to a new, larger space at 18th and Castro streets.

There is now a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for the restoration of the Castro's nearly 25-year-old The Hope For the World Cure mural at 16th and Market streets.

Sunglass Hut quietly closed its Castro store at 511 Castro Street last week after at least 15 years in that space.

No one was injured in the April 8 fire on Noe Street, but it displaced five residents and shut down Sushi Urashima, and crowdfunding campaigns have been launched for both.